P.J. O’Connell is an Irish Artist based in Thurles, Co Tipperary. He graduated with a Hons Degree in Fine Art Limerick School of Art and Design and studies at Academie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam. He is the Head of Art and Design in Colaiste Mhuire Co-Ed. Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

Exhibitions:
P.J. O'Connell has exhibited work in solo and group shows in Ireland and abroad since 1987. His paintings are in private collections in Ireland, Europe, North America, Africa and Australia, and public collections including Limerick City Gallery of Art, Mater Private Hospital, University of Limerick, Museum of Fine Art Alytus - Lithuania, Tipperary Institute, Limerick City Council, Kildare County Council, Tipperary County Council, Universidad de la Laguna - Tenerife, ETB Tipperary, Gallerie Haus Köstenberger, Obdacho - Austria, Regional Hospital - Limerick, Irish Embassy - Kampala, Uganda.
"My recent works continue my commitment to the principles and methods of abstraction. As such, references made in my work to the ways in which the everyday world appears to us are almost entirely put aside so that feeling and emotion can be aroused directly through the interaction of the materials and technique, the media and the various ways the elements of design can be made to behave.
There is a major commitment to the grid in these latest series of works with great stress ( and delight) given to the physicality of application of paint resulting in repetitive phrases and shifting layers.' - PJ O'Connell.
Opening night is 7pm on Thursday 11th July with an opening speech by James O'Donoghue.